Katharine Anderson

PHONE

412-268-6143

OFFICE

GSIA - Tepper School of Business - Room 333

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Economics
Entrepreneurship

EDUCATION

University of Michigan - Ph D - 2010
Grinnell College - BA - 2002

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Networks, Innovation, Knowledge-based Production, Teams, Science of Science

USEFUL LINKS

Personal Website

PUBLICATIONS

• Linking behavior in the physics education research coauthorship network

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Matthew Crespi, Eleanor Sayre) Physical Review--PER 13(1), 2017

• A Model of Collaboration Network Formation with Heterogeneous Skills

Network Science 4(2), 2016; 188-215

• Specialists and Generalists: Equilibrium Skill Acquisition Decisions in Problem-solving Populations

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84, 2012; 463– 473

• Best Laid Plans: Gender and Business-School Completion Rates of GMAT Test Takers

(author(s): Mark Montgomery, Katharine Anderson) The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 47(1), 2007; 175–191

• Implications of Changes in Men''s and Women''s Labor Force Participation for Real Compensation Growth and Inflation

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Lisa Barrow, Kristin Butcher) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5(1), 2005; 7

• You can''t take it with you: asset run-down at the end of the life cycle

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Eric French, Tina Lam) Economic Perspectives, 2004; 40-54

WORKING PAPERS

• Social Network Constraints on the Formation of Resource Management Groups

• Writers, Designers, and Software Developers: Skill Networks and Measures of Complex Human Capital

• Specialization and diversity in teams, when teams are self-generated

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Seth Richards-Shubik)

• Skill Specialization and the Formation of Collaboration Networks

• Skill Specialization and Economic Success: Human Capital in Short Term Labor Markets

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Rebecca Lessem)

• Network Perturbations and the Stability of Network Measures

(author(s): Katharine Anderson, Ross O''Connell)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Tepper School of Business - Faculty Giving Chair, AY 2011-2012 (2011)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Board Member, Grinnell College, Donald and Winifred Wilson Program Leadership Council (September 2015 -)

COURSES TAUGHT

• INTRO ENTREPRENRSHIP (70415) 2017 Section: A, B
  2015 Section: A
  2014 Section: A, B
  2013 Section: A

• Soc Econ & Info Ntwk (73449) 2016 Section: A
  2015 Section: A

• Socl Econ Inf Netwks (70449) 2016 Section: A
  2015 Section: A

• Intro Entreprenrship (70415) 2016 Section: A

• SOC ECON & INFO NTWK (73449) 2014 Section: A

• SOCL ECON INF NETWKS (70449) 2014 Section: A

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship (70415) 2012 Section: A, B
  2011 Section: A, B